Re: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN in generic code (was: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Michael,

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Found this problem while enabling queued rwlock on SPARC.
>>> The parameter CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN is used to clear the
>>> specific byte in qrwlock structure. Without this parameter,
>>> we clear the wrong byte. Here is the code.
>>>
>>> static inline u8 *__qrwlock_write_byte(struct qrwlock *lock)
>>>  {
>>>         return (u8 *)lock + 3 * IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN);
>>>  }
>>>
>>> Define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN for SPARC to fix it.
>>
>>> --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
>>> @@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
>>>  config ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT
>>>         def_bool y
>>>
>>> +config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>>> +       bool
>>> +       default y if SPARC
>>
>> Nice catch!
>>
>> Traditionally, CPU_BIG_ENDIAN and CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN were defined only on
>> architectures that may support both.  And it was checked in platform code
>> and drivers only.
>> Hence the symbol is lacking from most architectures. Heck, even
>> architectures that support both may default to one endiannes, and declare
>> only the symbol for the other endianness:
>
> I guess there's a reason we can't use __BIG_ENDIAN__ / __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ ?

I (C/asm) code we can, in Kconfig we cannot.

So far we tried always doing that, but a few checks for the semi-existing
Kconfig symbol crept in in generic code. Those could be replaced by the __*__
variants, but consistently having the Kconfig symbols would be useful anyway
(e.g. to avoid building the broken-on-big-endian ISDN drivers).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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